Born and raised in San Francisco, Lili Price (aka Lili Bradford, she/her) studied photography, illustration, and art history at Parsons School of Design in NYC.

 

Much of her photographic work aligns with that of the Surrealists, both in mission to disorient and question subconscious norms and in aesthetics of distortion and mirror imagery. She uses practical or naturally-occuring distortions to point out the blurred line between what is considered Reality versus Alternate. This often exists in combination with her interest in the concept of beauty (both popular and aesthetic) and the female subject – both of which are scrutinized as having a standard ideal. Whenever working with imagery of women, nuance of the female persona through nonmale eyes is top of mind; her goal is to find spaces for women to pictorially exist outside of the fem archetypes (that of Mother, Damsel, Venus, and Monster).

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Her most recent work interrogates the body as a concept: what makes a body normal or able, cultural experiences of having particular bodies, gendered body parts, and the relationship between the Self and its container. As an invisibly-disabled young woman, her own life has triggered her to deeply consider mental-physical existence and the significance of the body as home, object, and self. Given the 21st Century’s emphasis on decorporealization (elimination of human physical labor, focus on virtual presences), makes such exploration relevant and vital.

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Lili also works in ceramic sculpture and commercial illustration, and is an avid curator of knowledge in Modern Art and Women Artists history (subjects she has taught via nonprofits).